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Inside Back Cover: Molybdenum Sulfides and Selenides as Possible Electrocatalysts for CO 2 Reduction (ChemCatChem 7/2014)
Author(s) -
Chan Karen,
Tsai Charlie,
Hansen Heine A.,
Nørskov Jens K.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201490045
Subject(s) - electrochemistry , transition metal , catalysis , density functional theory , molybdenum , doping , molybdenum disulfide , materials science , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , reduction (mathematics) , chemical physics , computational chemistry , electrode , metallurgy , organic chemistry , geometry , optoelectronics , mathematics
The electrochemical reduction of CO 2 The cover picture shows MoS 2 and Ni‐doped MoS 2 catalysts, and the reaction path of CO 2 electrochemical reduction to CH 4 on Ni‐doped MoS 2 . In their Full Paper on p. 1899 ff., J. K. Nørskov and co‐workers describe how their density functional theory calculations predict MoS 2 , MoSe 2 , and Ni‐doped MoS 2 to have significantly improved activity for CO 2 electrochemical reduction over the best transition metal catalysts. This activity arises from the binding of intermediates to different sites, which allows for deviations from the scaling relations between the intermediates on transition metals. Their results point to the broader application of the active edge sites of transition metal dichalcogenides in complex electrochemical processes.